Barisa, Marta;
Josephine G. M. Strijker, Guillem Pascual-Pasto, Yannine J. Kal;
(2024)
Blocking MIF secretion enhances CAR T-cell efficacy against neuroblastoma.
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Abstract
While chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies are showing highly promising first results in neuroblastoma, immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments (TME) limit T cell persistence and durable clinical efficacy. To improve CAR T-cell efficacy further, we applied a multi-omics approach including single-cell RNA sequencing and proteomics, which identified 13 targetable immunosuppressive factors in neuroblastoma. Of these, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and midkine (MDK) were validated across multiple published RNA datasets. Moreover, they were secreted in high abundance by neuroblastoma tumoroids. Functional validation experiments revealed MIF as a potent inhibitor of CAR T-cells, in vitro and in vivo. Degradation of MIF by PROTAC technology significantly enhanced CAR T-cell activation targeting GPC2 and B7-H3, providing a potential intervention against MIF. By defining the immunosuppressive effects of neuroblastoma’s TME on CAR T-cell efficacy, particularly the pivotal role of MIF, we provide a therapeutic strategy for improving adoptive cell therapies for this pediatric malignancy.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Blocking MIF secretion enhances CAR T-cell efficacy against neuroblastoma |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2024.04.05.588098 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.05.588098 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Biology and Cancer Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192498 |
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